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Māori oral literature as seen by a classicist Agathe Thornton

I. A STORY AND A SONG -- Introduction : the oral nature of early Māori literature -- The story of Pare and Hutu : motif-sequence in common with Hawaiian stories, interpretations, novelty, construction ...
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The preservation and survival of African oral literature / edited by Isidore Okpewho

Introduction / Isidore Okpewho -- Is African oral literature literature? / Leif Lorentzon -- "I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons" : the autobiographical component of the hunters' chants / ...
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‘Oral literature preserves history, morals’

A professor of Oral and Comparative Literature, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), Niger State, Ker Apegba, has argued that oral literature has the capacity not only to entertain ...